SU chancellor and husband pledge $1M to university

Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor and her husband, Steven R. Brechin, today pledged to donate $1 million to the university, matching the largest gift by an SU chancellor.

The university's new capital campaign kicks off Friday with a goal of raising $1 billion. Cantor's gift will support academic appointments and programs throughout the university.

According to Kevin Quinn, SU vice president for public affairs, the gift matches the $1 million given by former chancellor Melvin A. Eggers in 1991.

The school will received Cantor's and Brechin's gift in three ways, Quinn said. Part will come from an outright gift, part will be paid out over their lifetime and the rest will be bequest in their wills.

The university pays Cantor $572,385 a year in salary and benefits. Brechin, an environmental sociologist, is also employed by the university as a professor in the Maxwell School and the College of Arts and Sciences.